Hilaire Belloc quotes - page 2

Oh let us never, never doubt what nobody is sure about. (Hilaire Belloc)
The accursed power which stands on Privilege (And goes with Women, and Champagne, and Bridge) Broke - and Democracy resumed her reign (Which goes with Bridge, and Women and Champagne). View quote
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Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy. View quote
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Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There's always laughter and good red wine. At least I've always found it so. Benedicamus Domino! View quote
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When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before. View quote
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Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise. View quote
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The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine - but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight. View quote
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Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged. View quote
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The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse. View quote
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Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army! View quote
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In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night. (Hilaire Belloc)
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language. View quote
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly. View quote
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I put my pencil upon the paper, doubtfully, and drew little lines, considering my theme. But I would not long hesitate in this manner, for I knew that all creation must be chaos first, and then gestures in the void before it can cast out the completed thing. View quote
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The grace of God is courtesy. View quote
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Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different thing Torture is positively paid to sing. View quote
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The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man. View quote
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The tender Evenlode that makes Her meadows hush to hear the sound Of waters mingling in the brakes, And binds my heart to English ground.A lovely river, all alone, She lingers in the hills and holds A hundred little towns of stone, Forgotten in the western wolds. View quote
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That I grow sour, who only lack delight; That I descend to sneer, who only grieve: That from my depth I should contemn your height; That with my blame my mockery you receive; Huntress and splendour of the woodland night, Diana of this world, do not believe. View quote
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And mothers of large families (who claim common sense) will find a Tiger well repay the trouble and expense. View quote
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Now the Faith is old and the Devil is bold, Exceedingly bold indeed; And the masses of doubt that are floating about Would smother a mortal creed. But we that sit in a sturdy youth, And still can drink strong ale, Oh-let us put it away to infallible truth, That always shall prevail.  [semi-chorus:] And thank the Lord For the temporal sword, And howling heretics too; And all good things Our Christendom brings, But especially barley brew! (Hilaire Belloc)
It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated. View quote
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The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers. View quote
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The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself. View quote
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An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight. View quote
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